Should many people struggle with certain skills/knowledge areas, we'll consider providing more training and taking up some issues during class.

Office Hours

Thanks to everyone who took the Doodle: Office Hour choices. I'm going to leave my office hours at Tues, Thurs 3:30-4:30pm in 302 South Hall. We start today and run until the end of the semester -- unless I make an announcement canceling an office hour.

I'm willing to schedule other meetings and virtual office hours as the need arises. (For example, I'm a fan of Google Hangout, and the campus has a new video-conferencing system we can try out or the Web Conferences in Working with Open Data.

How I use conda

In my specific case, I'm running OS X 10.6.8. When I downloaded and installed anaconda, all my anaconda files end up in ~/anaconda.

A really nice feature: "installs into a single directory and doesn't affect other Python installations on your system. Doesn't require root or local administrator privileges."

On my Mac, the key to swapping between using Anaconda environments and my virtualenvs is through manipulating the $PATH environment variable. If I want to use anaconda, I need to get ~/anaconda/bin to beginning of $PATH -- see Anaconda FAQ — Continuum documentation conda environments

I have an alias defined in my ~/.profile to make this easier to do on the fly: